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Originally Posted by john70t
All of these fundamentally alter the original Operating System purchased after the fact.
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You are not wrong !
Have no choice at work, since support for Win10 is ending in june(?) and extensions to support are gonna be $$$.. Yes the new menus are annoying, and yeah they turned off classic mode with 22H3 I think... So you are stuck with that new interface for the most part..
Aside from that, to be fair, every annoying medical software / desktop interface / single sign on stuff I build or use still works A-OK. Internals work the same, GPOs still work the same, it's not like they changed the registry either... Start menu aside, Win11 is more like Win10 + a UI patch... not THAT bad.
Edge... is also pretty good - it's Chromium based so it's essentially Chrome for better or worse, even works with chrome extensions or settings. Yes some $%$#% is encrypted like browser Extensions state, thanks a bunch MS (not super practical for me), but other than that it's way better than IE was.
Macs? I was swearing by macs since 1984 so it's not like I hate them. But I gave my last one to my kid 2y ago. Every new OS they try and turn them more into ipads, and frankly I got tired of looking for codes on my ipad/iphone or wherever to confirm my $%$#% apple ID on the mac all the damn time, I am sick of their closed ecosystem and entering that apple ID every 17 seconds when you set stuff up on the computer or the phone... Kinda fell out of love.
I'd have to be pretty pissed off to go Linux... I wanna use the thing, not recompile it all the time, too much work. I sorta kinda support all 3 at work but after doing all the work for Win11 in the past few weeks.... not loving it but it's not that bad - YMMV.